Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics

Luge at the XV Olympic Winter Games
Venue	Canada Olympic Park
Dates	14–19 February 1988
Competitors	90 from 22 nations
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Luge at the 1988 Winter Olympics consisted of three events at Canada Olympic Park. The competition took place between 14 and 19 February 1988. ^{[1] [2]}

Medal summary

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	East Germany	3	2	1	6
2	West Germany	0	1	1	2
3	Soviet Union	0	0	1	1
Totals (3 entries)		3	3	3	9

East Germany won all three gold medals, and six medals overall. All three countries that won medals in Calgary were participating in their last Winter Olympics, the two Germanys unifying and the Soviet Union splitting up before 1992. ^[1]

Events

Event [1]	Gold		Silver		Bronze
Men's singles details	Jens Müller   East Germany	3:05.548	Georg Hackl   West Germany	3:05.916	Yury Kharchenko   Soviet Union	3:06.274
Women's singles details	Steffi Walter-Martin   East Germany	3:03.973	Ute Oberhoffner-Weiß   East Germany	3:04.105	Cerstin Schmidt   East Germany	3:04.181
Doubles details	East Germany Jörg Hoffmann Jochen Pietzsch	1:31.940	East Germany Stefan Krauße Jan Behrendt	1:32.039	West Germany Thomas Schwab Wolfgang Staudinger	1:32.274

Participating NOCs

Twenty-three nations participated in Luge at the Calgary Games. The Netherlands Antilles, Bulgaria, the Philippines and the US Virgin Islands made their Olympic luge debuts. ^[1]

•   Argentina  (1)
•   Austria  (7)
•   Bulgaria  (3)
•   Canada  (9)
•   Czechoslovakia  (2)
•   France  (1)
•   East Germany  (10)
•   West Germany  (7)
•   Great Britain  (4)
•   Italy  (9)
•   Japan  (5)
•   Liechtenstein  (1)
•   Netherlands Antilles  (1)
•   Philippines  (1)
•   Puerto Rico  (2)
•   Romania  (1)
•   Soviet Union  (10)
•   Spain  (1)
•   Sweden  (2)
•   Chinese Taipei  (2)
•   United States  (9)
•   Virgin Islands  (1)
•   Yugoslavia  (2)

References

1. "Calgary 1988 Official Report" (PDF). XV Olympic Winter Games Organizing Committee. LA84 Foundation. 1988. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
2. "Luge at the 1988 Calgary Winter Games". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 April 2020.